Frank K. Kelly
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| aspace adv. | 1935 Star Ship Invincible in Astounding Stories Jan. 37/2 The sky looked calm, and it was black the way it always had been since Hansen had been aspace, but it was the kind of black a man can look at and understand; there were stars in it. |
| Earthbound adj. 2 | 1933 Into the Meteorite Orbit in Amazing Stories Dec. 85/1 We're not always to be earth-bound, tied to a pebble for infinity! |
| earthwoman n. | 1934 Famine on Mars in Astounding Stories Sept. 77/2 One was what had been born in me, what had been inextricably entangled in the structure of the germ cell from which I had been created; the other remembered all the long years on Earth when I, in common with every other Earthman and Earthwoman, had been flexed and shaped by the insistent pounding of the Combine; my brain had been conditioned to believe what it was desired that I should believe, and nothing beyond that. |
| glassite n. | 1934 Famine on Mars in Astounding Stories Sept. 72/1 I was hemmed in on all sides by panels of glassite so perfectly transparent from within as to give the impression that there was nothing, nothing at all, between me and the aching emptiness of the void; through the thick walls of the runway the stars quivered like a million small bright fires, and the sky loomed around and above and below me as an endless pall of heavy black smoke. |
| ray v. | 1934 Famine on Mars in Astounding Stories Sept. 94/1 The people at the stations wouldn’t have let the shell go by. They’d have rayed anything that big. |
| shield n. | 1933 Into the Meteorite Orbit in Amazing Stories Dec. 89/2 ‘We can hold the Group off—until we reach Warren. I'll get the shields up…’ Granton caught his shoulder for an instant in a crushing grip. And spoke grimly: ‘See that you do. ’ Barclay nodded speechlessly, swung to the banked control-panel that held within it the interleading conduits of electric force that created fan-beams of crackling force-shields. [both ellipses in original] |
| star liner n. | 1932 Radium World in Wonder Stories Feb. 1067/2 There’s a Star liner leaving Grand Central Space Terminal at twelve tonight; the Trident. She’s fast, a crack Mars ship. |
| visiplate n. | 1932 The Crisis with Mars in Wonder Stories Quarterly Fall 64/2 He went straight to his bunk, reached down into the dark space directly beneath it, pulled hard at something metallic, and withdrew a tiny, compact black mechanism, with a little silver visi-plate inset in its exact center. Grant snapped a control-switch to contact, and waited while the small screen swiftly brightened. |